attack time

[egbertv]

I want to know of my strategie would work. I have an enemy nearby (2 hours walk for scholar)
I know he lives in a different timezone. He has only one town.
When I launch my attack, when he goes to sleep (about) can i take his city overnight, with use of 2-3 scholars.
He has no time to reinforce, strengthen his wall or counter offence me.
What will he see when he wake up? his town is gone :-)

[Stark Bledfast]

Have you purchased the scholar boost? If not, then likely not.

It takes a minimum of 4 scholars to take a city, as loyalty is reduced 20-30 percent per hit. So if you got a maximum 30% drop with each wave, 3 scholars would only reduce loyalty by 90%, or down to 10%. They would then trek back 2 hours and have to be resent (another 2 hours). Loyalty regenerates at 3% per hour (depending on world). So that 4 hours between waves would boost loyalty back up to at least 22%.

So you would need at least 6 hours... 4 hours to send 3 scholar waves out to hit and have them return, and another 2 hours to send a 4th wave to conquer the city. To be safe you should send 2 scholars on the last trip.

[EliteBatman]

Can't he just send more scholars the first time?

[EliteBatman]

Or can't he attack the city first with military to reduce loyalty?

[Stark Bledfast]

Only scholars reduce loyalty. You can defeat all the city's troops with your armies, but unless a scholar is in the attack wave then the loyalty will not be affected.

And only 1 scholar in a wave will affect loyalty. If you send 1 attack wave with 5 scholars in it, the city's loyalty will only be reduced by 20%-30%. You can send 5 separate waves each 10 seconds (or so) apart, and each one of those will lower the city's loyalty by 20%-30% for a combined reduction of 100%-120%.